Dana Bernardino
March marks the start of Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate the contributions women have made to our society. We are dedicated to uplifting and recognizing women’s contributions all year long, and March gives us a special opportunity to step back and recognize some of the women our history books have neglected.
So for the 31 days of March, we are highlighting 31 remarkable women from our nation’s past and present whose legacies deserve celebrating. Women who made lasting contributions to our workforce in every field. This list of remarkable women includes doctors, astronauts, activists, congresswomen, athletes, actors, engineers, artists, human rights advocates, and inventors. But none of the women on this list are just one thing; They all led extraordinary lives that left a lasting impact on our society by helping open doors for the women who followed in their trailblazing footsteps.
Each year, The National Women’s History Alliance chooses an annual theme for Women’s History Month. This year’s theme is an extension of last year’s — since many of the women’s suffrage centennial celebrations originally scheduled for 2020 were canceled. Every woman on our list embodies the 2021 theme of “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.” Although the women on our list weren’t all involved in politics or the women’s suffrage movement, their lives and legacies refuse to be silenced.
So, let’s get to it. Here are 1Huddle’s list of the 31 women you should know:
Dr. Patricia Bath was a history-making Ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. In 1986, she invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, which is one of the most important surgical tools in the history of ophthalmology. Dr. Bath lived a life without limits and broke countless barriers:
Even though Dr. Bath passed away in 2019, her legacy of “firsts” might not be over. During her lifetime, Dr. Bath was awarded five U.S. patents, which has led her to be nominated 11 times to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which recognizes the enduring legacies of exceptional U.S. patent holders. If admitted, Dr. Bath would be the only Black woman out of 603 inventors. Dr. Bath is still under consideration for this honor, and you can get involved by clicking here to nominate Dr. Patricia Bath.
This October, 14-year-old Anika Chebrolu was named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her discovery that could lead to a cure for COVID-19.
Chebrolu’s winning invention uses in-silico methodology to discover a lead molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. She submitted her winning project when she was in 8th grade.
Chebrolu wants to use her invention to work alongside scientists and researchers who are fighting to “control the morbidity and mortality” of the pandemic. Although she’s already considered America’s top young scientist, Chebrolu is motivated to keep developing her findings into an actual cure for the virus.
We know this is only the beginning for Chebrolu, who plans to become a doctor or researcher in the future and use her skills to help solve the most challenging problems facing scientists today. The future of work looks bright with young women like Chebrolu leading the way!
Qiu Jin was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet who is considered a national hero in China.
Jin was far ahead of her time and fought for women’s access to education and against foot binding. She also founded a feminist journal and fought against the oppressive Qing Dynasty. The journal Jin founded called “Zhongguo nubao,” featured nationalist and feminist writings and expressed Jin’s view that the traditional family structure was oppressive to women. This was highly controversial at the time, as were all of Jin’s feminist poems and writings where she encouraged women to rise up and fight for equality. One of her most famous poems begins “Don’t tell me women / are not the stuff of heroes.”
In 1905, Jin joined the Triads, an underground society that advocated for the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. Sadly, Jin was executed after participating in a failed uprising against the Qing Dynasty when she was only 31 years old. But more than a century later, Jin’s extraordinary life and legacy lives on and she is widely regarded as one of China’s greatest heroines.
Dr. Jeanette Epps is an aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut who was recently assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station.
Planned for a launch in 2021, the historic Starliner-1 spaceflight will be the first for Dr. Epps. The expedition aboard the orbiting space laboratory will be six months long, making Dr. Epps the first Black woman crew member to work and live on the ISS for a long-duration mission.
Dr. Epps’ new mission is one of her many impressive accomplishments. As a former NASA Fellow, Dr. Epps authored several highly referenced journal and conference articles describing her research. She has won several awards for her groundbreaking work, and was granted a patent for her research involving automobile collision location detection and countermeasure systems.
It’s safe to say that for Dr. Epps, the sky really is the limit.
Oklahoma native Wilma Mankiller was a Cherokee activist, social worker, and community developer. She is most widely known for becoming the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, leading the largest tribe in America.
During Mankiller’s decade-long chiefdom from 1985 to 1995, “tribal enrollment grew, infant mortality dropped and employment rates doubled,” according to Time. Mankiller was a highly compassionate people-centered leader, and during her time as Principal Chief, the Cherokee government built new health clinics, created a mobile eye-care clinic, established ambulance services, and created early education, adult education and job training programs. She also developed long-lasting revenue streams for the Cherokee Nation including factories, retail stores, restaurants, and bingo operations. She even established self-governance that allowed the tribe to manage its own finances. In 1998, Mankiller was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2010, Mankiller died from pancreatic cancer, but her legacy lives on in the lasting contributions she made to her tribe and to society, as well as in her bestselling autobiography Mankiller: A Chief and Her People.
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. In fact, Rankin was the first woman to hold any federal office in the United States, making her the perfect embodiment of this year’s “Valiant Women of the Vote” theme.
Rankin was a women’s rights advocate and a suffragist during the Progressive Era — making her one of the few suffragists ever elected to Congress. She was also a lifelong pacifist and one of only 50 House members who opposed the declaration of war on Germany in 1917. Two decades later, she was the only member of Congress to vote against the declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Rankin’s decision to vote against U.S. participation in World War I and World War II was met with disapproval during her service, but she is applauded by Congress today for her anti-war stance.
During her time in Congress, Rankin introduced legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment that grants unrestricted voting rights to women nationwide. When she was elected, Rep. Rankin said, “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.” As of 2021, there are a record number of women in Congress who now make up more than 25% of Congress — for the first time in American history. However, Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.
Anna May Wong is considered Hollywood’s first-ever Asian American movie star as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain international acclaim. Wong’s illustrious career spanned film, television, stage, and radio.
Despite dealing with racism that plagued her career, Wong earned roles in over 50 domestic and foreign films. She made history again in 1951 with her television show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, which was the first-ever U.S. television show starring an Asian American series lead. She devoted much of her career to portraying Chinese and Chinese Americans in a positive light and fought against Hollywood stereotypes of Asian characters.
Anna May Wong was a true trailblazer who paved the way for equality in TV and film and helped make a space for fellow Asian artists and other artists of color who followed in her footsteps.
María Elena Salinas is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author, who has been heralded as the “Voice of Hispanic America” by the New York Times.
Salinas is the first Latina to receive a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, and she is the longest running female network anchor in America. Her historic career spanned more than three decades in the U.S. and in 18 Latin American countries. She has interviewed Latin American heads of state, rebel leaders, dictators, and every United States president since Jimmy Carter.After leaving univision in 2017 after a 36-year run at the network, Salinas said, “I am grateful for having had the privilege to inform and empower the Latino community through the work my colleagues and I do with such passion.”
Olympic sprinter Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith Joyner is the fastest woman of all time.
Griffith Joyner set Olympic records in 1988 for the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in Seoul that remain unbeaten today. She was also known for being a trend setter on the field, with her long colorful nails and fashionable outfits that influenced women in every sport to be creative and embrace their individuality.
Griffith Joyner was born in Los Angeles and raised in a public housing project. After her sprinting career ended, Griffith Joyner established a foundation for underprivileged children and served as the co-chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.
She was inducted into the Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1995, three years before her death. Her life was tragically cut short at just 38 years old as the result of an epileptic seizure, but Griffith Joyner’s athletic and philanthropic legacy remain known by millions of people today. Nearly a quarter century after her death, Griffith Joyner remains the fastest woman in history.
You’ve probably heard of Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois senator and combat veteran of the Iraq War. But you might not know that Senator Duckworth is responsible for an impressive list of firsts:
Senator Duckworth lost both of her legs following a helicopter attack in the Iraq War when she was serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. In a 2018 interview with Vogue, Senator Duckworth said “People always want me to hide it in pictures. I say no! I earned this wheelchair. It’s no different from a medal I wear on my chest. Why would I hide it?” She is another perfect example of courage, integrity, and bravery, and of a woman who lives by the mantra of “refusing to be silenced.”
Ibtihaj Muhammad is a fencing champion who became the first Muslim woman to represent the U.S. in the Olympics.
Muhammad competed in the 2016 Olympics weating a hijab — which made her the first Olympian to ever wear a hijab while competing — and she took home the bronze medal for fencing while doing so. This act inspired so many that Barbie recreated a hijab-wearing figure to honor Muhammad in 2018. Muhammad is also a native New Jerseyan, and her father was a police officer in Newark, where 1Huddle’s headquarters are located.
Another remarkable woman you’ve likely heard of before is Marie Curie, the renowned Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Marie Curie (also known as Madame Curie) is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the first and only woman to ever win the Nobel Prize twice. She is also the only person (of any gender) to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. Curie was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.
Throughout her life, Madame Curie actively used radium to alleviate suffering during World War I, and she was passionate about using science to improve peoples’ lives. Fun fact: Curie and her husband Pierre worked together to perform brilliant research and analysis that led to the discovery of the chemical element polonium, which is named after Marie’s birth country of Poland.
In 1996, Kalpana Chawla became the first woman of Indian descent to fly in space.
NASA named Chawla as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia, which orbited around earth 252 times over a two-week span. Her second and final trip to space was in 2003 when she and six other astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia completed more than 80 experiments over the course of 16 days. Tragically, Chawla and the entire Space Shuttle Columbia crew died when the ship disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Chawla has since been posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, and several universities, institutions, and streets throughout America have been named in her honor.Chawla is regarded as a national hero in India.
Katharine Graham led her family newspaper, The Washington Post, for nearly 30 years. Graham was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman CEO of a Fortune 500 Company.
Graham presided over The Washington Post through its groundbreaking publication of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Graham helped establish the Post as one of the most esteemed journalistic institutions in the world. And in 1988, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her autobiography, Personal History.
Althea Gibson was a highly successful tennis player and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis.
In 1956, Gibson became the first Black person to win a Grand Slam title for her victory in the French championships. The following year, she continued her groundbreaking streak by winning both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (which is the precursor of the US Open). Then, she won both again in 1958 which led her to be recognized as Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. During her career, Gibson won 11 Grand Slam tournaments and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Bob Ryland, the former tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams, said Gibson is “one of the greatest players who ever lived.” And Gibson wasn’t just a great tennis player — in the early 1960s she also became the first Black player to compete on the Women’s Professional Golf Tour.
Gibson was often compared to Jackie Robinson, since both legendary athletes rose to success at a time when racism was rampant in sports and in society. Gibson crossed color lines during segregation and made a lasting impact both on and off the court. Now, contemporary female athletes of color like Venus and Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka are able to follow in her hard-fought footsteps.
“I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps,” Venus Williams said of Gibson. “Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her legacy will live on.”
In 1959, Hawaii became a U.S. State. Patsy Mink, a native of Paia, Hawaii, knew even then that she wanted to run for a position in the Hawaiian government.
What Mink didn’t know at the time was that she would become the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress. Throughout her time in Congress, Rep. Mink fought for equality and justice by writing bills like Title IX of the Higher Education Amendment, which prohibits sex discrimination, as well as the Early Childhood Education Act and the Women’s Educational Equity Act. Mink was also the first Asian-American to run for U.S. President.
Mink served six terms in the House of Representatives, and she formed the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. After her death in 2002, the Title IX law was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, which remains one of the most important protections in the higher education system today.
Civil rights pioneer Sylvia Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist. Alongside her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970, the renowned organization that provided aid and shelter for trans and queer youth living in New York City.
Rivera herself was a homeless youth in the Bronx. By age 11, she ran away from home and became a child prostitute until a group of local drag queens welcomed her into their fold. With their support, she was given the name “Sylvia” and began to identify as a drag queen. Rivera proceeded to become a notable Latina-American drag queen who began her lifelong career in activism in 1970 after she joined the Gay Activists Alliance at 18 years old, where she fought for the rights of gay people and for the inclusion of drag queens like herself in the movement. In honor of Rivera’s activism in the gay and trans community, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project was named in her honor, and SRLP continues to serve as an impactful resource to protect the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
Bertha Von Suttner was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Von Suttner was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist born in 1843. In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize, she became the second female Nobel laureate in 1905 (following Marie Curie, who won the award two years prior).
The honor was bestowed upon Von Suttner for her 1889 anti-war novel Lay Down Your Arms, which is known as one of the 19th century’s most influential books, and for her diligent work organizing an anti-war peace movement. The Nobel Foundation stated she won the Peace Prize “for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war.”
Later in life, Von Suttner became one of the leaders of the international peace movement, and she established the Austrian Peace Society in 1891. She also attended the largely male-dominated peace congresses, where she stood out as a liberal and forceful leader, leading her to become known as the “generalissimo of the peace movement.”
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin…
Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, though her contributions to the movement didn’t become well known until recent years. At just 15 years old, Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in 1955. This happened nine months before the more widely known, nearly identical incident with Rosa Parks.
Colvin was also one of five plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle case, which challenged bus segregation. Colvin’s testimony helped win this landmark civil rights case, and on June 13, 1956, the judges presiding over the case determined that laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional.
So why haven’t most of us heard of Claudette Colvin before?
Well, Montgomery’s Black leaders did not publicize Colvin’s pioneering effort since she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager at the time. Civil rights activists didn’t want Colvin to be publicly associated with the Browder v. Gayle case because, as Rosa Parks said, “if the white press got a hold of that information [Colvin’s unmarried pregnancy], they would have a field day. They’d call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn’t have a chance.”
Luckily, Colvin is finally beginning to receive the recognition she deserves for her immense contributions to the civil rights movement.
Ellen Ochoa is the third astronaut on our list of remarkable women.
In 1993, Ochoa boarded the Discovery shuttle and became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go into space. She spent nine days surveying the Earth’s ozone layer and solar activity, and has since embarked on three additional trips into space.
In 2013, Ochoa accomplished another historical feat by becoming the first Hispanic director, and second female director, of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The epic love story of Mildred and Richard Loving became widely known after it was centered in the popular 2016 film Loving.
In 1958, the Lovings were arrested in Virginia for violating the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which prohibited marriages of different races. The couple fought for their love in the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia of 1967 in which the Supreme Court ruled in the Lovings’ favor, striking down the Virginia statute and deeming all such laws as unconstitutional violations of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Thanks to Mildred and Richard Loving, all Americans are now free to marry outside of their race. This historic case for equality also paved the way for same-sex marriage legalization in America, as Loving v. Virginia was cited as precedent in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 that guarantees the fundamental right to marry for all same-sex couples.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is part of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is a respected elder, genealogist, and tribal historian who has been active in preservation for most of her life.
Allard is an activist who has been at the forefront of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. She founded the Sacred Stone Camp that was created to protect indigenous land and water rights by protesting the construction of the highly controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline that planned to run through reservation land. In the time since Allard founded the camp and led the #NoDAPL movement, she has won numerous awards and become a highly sought-after international speaker and activist. Allard’s leadership at the protests at the pipeline site in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Reservation helped give the movement international recognition, and the protest grew to become the largest gathering of indigenous nations in modern history. Sacred Stone Camp still stands, though it has since evolved into Sacred Stone Village, which now functions as “a shared vision of a permanent, multi-generational, diverse eco-village community to teach by example how to live and thrive in an ecologically and spiritually sustainable community.”
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher, and a leading scholar of critical race theory who developed the theory of intersectionality.
Currently, Crenshaw is a full-time professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in the intersection of racial and gender justice. Crenshaw founded Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), and she is the president of the Berlin-based Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ).Crenshaw is best known for the introduction and development of intersectionality, which is the theory of how overlapping or intersecting social identities relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Her work has been essential in the development of intersectional feminism. You can watch her popular TedTalk “The urgency of intersectionality” here.
Radclyffe Hall was a British poet, author, and activist best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, which is one of the first groundbreaking works of lesbian literature.
When the The Well of Loneliness was published in 1928, it created a national scandal in England for its overt lesbian themes and the book was nationally banned. A London magistrate named Sir Chartres Biron ruled that the book was an “obscene libel,” so all copies of it were destroyed. Soon after, the book was published in the U.S. since an American court disagreed with Biron, stating that homosexuality was “not in itself obscene”.
Radclyffe Hall helped pave the way for lesbian literature, and she played an important part in normalizing lesbian culture throughout society.
Most of us know Billie Jean King — a World No. 1 professional tennis player and one of the most famous tennis players in history. In addition to being an incredible athlete, King is also known for being the first openly gay athlete.
After she was outed as a lesbian in 1981, King’s publicists told her to deny the claim, but King refused; Instead, she confirmed that she was a lesbian and became the first openly gay athlete in American history.
The legendary Billie Jean earned 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women’s doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She often represented the U.S. in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. And for three years, she was the U.S. captain in the Federation Cup. King also beat Bobby Riggs in the famous “Battle of the Sexes” match that was recently repurposed into the popular film starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell.
Billie Jean King was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in NYC was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In 2018, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
Junko Tabei is a mountaineer who shattered gender norms in 1975 by becoming the first woman to ever successfully climb Mount Everest.
After this monumental achievement, Tabei went on to become the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, meaning she successfully climbed the highest peak on every continent. Throughout her lifetime, Tabei also wrote seven books, organized environmental projects to clean up trash left on Everest, and she led annual climbs up Mount Fuji for youth who were affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Tabei has left a truly unique legacy; Asteroid 6897 Tabei is named after Junko, and in 2019 a mountain range on Pluto was named “Tabei Montes” in her honor.
Laverne Cox is an actress and LGBTQ+ activist who is the first openly trans person to be nominated for an Emmy Award.
Laverne Cox entered the public eye in 2013 after she was cast as transgender inmate Sophia Burset on Netflix’s hit original series Orange Is the New Black. Cox was nominated for three Emmy Awards for her beloved role in OITNB. In 2014, she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy in an acting category. Fun fact: Cox is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds.
Lyda Conley, a member of the Wyandot Nation, became the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1909.
Conley graduated from Kansas City School of Law in 1902 and became the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar. However, the case Conley argued before the Supreme Court case wasn’t just a professional endeavor — it was personal.
In 1906, the Wyandot Nation’s sacred Kansas burial ground was sold to the federal government. This upset Conley, so she took action and launched a campaign to protect and preserve the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, where many of her indigenous ancestors were laid to rest. Conley and her fellow activists stood their ground for years until 1909, when her fight to protect her tribe’s sacred land finally made it to the Supreme Court. That year, she used her legal skills to become the third woman, the second female attorney, and the first Native American woman to argue a case in front of America’s highest court. She argued that Native American burial grounds were entitled to federal protection. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court dismissed Conley’s case, but she didn’t give up. Thanks to her ongoing efforts, the cemetery was designated a federal park in 1916. Conley was laid to rest in the cemetery she devoted much of her life fighting for following her death in 1946.
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who is considered the world’s first computer programmer for her work writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s.
Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, and her gift for mathematics shined through at an early age. In the mid-1800s, most women were not expected to learn any mathematics or science, but Ada’s mother permitted her tutors to teach her these subjects since her mother, Lady Byron, thought rigorous studies would “prevent Lovelace from developing her father’s moody and unpredictable temperament.” Of course, Lady Byron had no idea her attempts at disciplining her daughter would help Ada develop into the world’s first computer programmer.
Like many notable women in history, Lovelace’s contributions to society were not recognized until decades after her death. In fact, Lovelace’s work in the computer science field wasn’t discovered until the 1950s when her notes were reintroduced to the world by B.V. Bowden. Since then, Ada has finally received many well-deserved posthumous honors for her work. In 1980, The Department of Defense even named a newly developed computer language “Ada,” after Lovelace.
“She was often blunt, but she personified courage, which is what it took for a gay person to bring a public legal claim for equality.”
This quote from The New Yorker describes Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist who served as lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that declared The Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
The Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, and it defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman, meaning it allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages. But Edith Windsor was one of the people who helped abolish this discriminatory law and change LGBTQ+ rights forever.
After Windsor’s wife Thea Spyer died in 2009, the federal government refused to recognize Windsor and Spyer’s marriage and left Windsor to pay $350,000 in estate taxes. Windsor waged a war against the Defense of Marriage Act in court by serving as the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in America.
Based on Windsor’s testimony that led to this victorious decision, the Obama Administration and federal agencies went on to extend rights, privileges and benefits to married same-sex couples.
Obviously, there are far more than 31 women who have made immeasurable contributions to our society. Throughout history, millions of women have changed the world through their work, activism, bravery, and inventiveness.
We’ve told you about 30 of these amazing women so far, but now it’s your turn.
We want to hear from you: Who is a woman you admire and would like to highlight? The first 10 people to correctly answer this question from the 1Huddle Women’s History Month game will have the opportunity to choose which women we feature in an upcoming Women’s History Month blog post. Here’s your question:
What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election?
Think you know who it was?
Send your answers to dana@1huddle.co for your chance to choose who will be featured in our next Women’s History Month blog!
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